<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13232]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know this to be all nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know this to be all nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not be a chip the richer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not be a chip the richer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start to expect things from you, and it all goes downhill from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all -- indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   And now be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly bread to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, nor that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master... But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test... For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25856]]></link><description><![CDATA[from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who remove stones, bruise their fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22991]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;   Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any church, and discover someone who, though he is offered a gospel of love, must subtly convert it into a gospel of hate before he can receive it. The gospel of love -- with its emphasis upon brotherhood, equality before God, the dignity of every human being, and man's social responsibility toward man -- does not satisfy the lack that he urgently feels. That calls for something altogether different, for an assurance that he is superior, that he is right where others are wrong -- a kind of cosmic teacher's pet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Briefly, that teaching contains the following elements: (1) There is one living and true God (i.9); (2) Idolatry is sinful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Briefly, that teaching contains the following elements: (1) There is one living and true God (i.9); (2) Idolatry is sinful and must be forsaken (i.9); (3) The wrath of God is ready to be revealed against the heathen for their impurity (iv.6), and against the Jews for their rejection of Christ and their opposition to the Gospel (ii.15,16); (4) The judgment will come suddenly and unexpectedly (v.2,3); (5) Jesus, the Son of God (i.1O), given over to death (v.10), and raised from the dead (iv.14), is the Saviour from the wrath of God (i.10); (6) The Kingdom of Jesus is now set up and all men are invited to enter it (ii.12); (7) Those who believe and turn to God are now expecting the coming of the Savior who will return from Heaven to receive them (i.10; iv.15-17); (8) Meanwhile, their life must be pure (iv.1-8), useful (iv.11-12), and watchful (v.14-8); (9) To that end, God has given them His Holy Spirit (iv.8; v.19). (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a very loyal and passionate audience that unfortunately never did grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a very loyal and passionate audience that unfortunately never did grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31589</guid></item></channel></rss>